DEAD FAMOUS: FULL REFERENCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hello! If you’ve read my book, DEAD FAMOUS: AN UNEXPECTED HISTORY OF CELEBRITY FROM BRONZE AGE TO SILVER SCREEN, and you want to know what I read during my research, below are three different lists of references. If you’ve listened on audiobook, and you want to know the footnotes, I’ve included them too

PART 1: RECOMMENDED READING FOR CURIOUS READERS

PART 2: FOOTNOTES (apologies, no page references available)

PART 3: FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY (apologies, this is not in alphabetical order – it’s simply the order I read stuff)

RECOMMENDED READING FOR CURIOUS READERS

If you’re curious to know more about some of the subjects mentioned in Dead Famous, here’s a thematic selection of books I’m happy to recommend. I’ve highlighted those that are written for a popular audience. The others are more scholarly, and might use academic language sometimes, but nothing in this list is too challenging for the adventurous reader. Enjoy!

Those Who Write For Immortality: Romanic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame, by H. J. Jackson (Yale, 2015)

‘The Context, Performance and Meaning of Ritual: The British Monarchy and the ‘Invention of Tradition’, c. 1820–1977’, By David Cannadine, in The Invention of Tradition, Edited by Eric Hobsbawm & Terence Ranger (1983)

FANDOM THEORY

‘Byron, Commonplacing And Early Fan Culture’, by Corin Throsby, in Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850, edited by Tom Mole (Cambridge University Press 2009)

Death, the Dead and Popular Culture, by Ruth Penfold-Mounce, (Emerald Publishing, 2018)

Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture, by Nadja Durbach, (University Of California Press, 2010)

Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freaks In Britain, edited by Marlene Tromp (Ohio University Press, 2008)

The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaption and Authorship, 1660-1769, by Michael Dobson (Clarendon, 1992)

DEAD FAMOUS FOOTNOTES

INTRODUCTION
1 Storm Gloor, ‘Just How Long is Your Fifteen Minutes? An Empirical Analysis of Artist’s Time on the Popular Charts,’ Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association, vol. 11, no. 1 (2011).

CHAPTER 1: GETTING DISCOVERED
1 Barry Cornwall, The Life of Edmund Kean (3rd edn, 2 vols., 1847; BiblioLife)
2 Chris Rojek, Celebrity (Reaktion, 2004).
3 Author unknown, ‘Recollections of Kean’, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, vol. 2, 1834
4 Morning Chronicle, 27 January 1814.
5 I’ve used various sources for Kean’s life: ‘Kean, Edmund (1787–1833)’, in Robert Crowcroft and John Cannon (eds.), The Oxford Companion to British History (2nd edn; Oxford University Press, 2015); Peter Thompson, ‘Kean, Edmund (1787–1833)’, in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004); My Acquaintance with the Late Mr. Kean, by Thomas Colley Grattan, in The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal, volume 3, (1833).
The Life of Edmund Kean (3rd edn, 2 vols., 1847; BiblioLife); Raymund Fitzsimons, Edmund Kean: Fire From Heaven (Dial, 1976); Thomas Colley Grattan, ‘My Acquaintance with the Late Mr. Kean’, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, vol. 3 (1833); Alfred L. Nelson and Gilbert B. Cross (eds.),
Drury Lane Journal: Selections from James Winston’s Diaries, 1819–1827 (The Society for Theatre Research, 1974).
Also I’m grateful to David Worrall’s analysis in Celebrity, Performance, Reception: British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
6 James Monaco, ‘Celebration’, in Celebrity: The Media as Image Makers (Dell, 1978).
7 Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 15.
8 Robert A. Gurval, ‘Caesar’s Comet: The Politics and Poetics of an Augustan Myth’, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, vol. 42 (1997).
9 Clara Tuite, Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity, (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
10 Jeffrey Kahan, Bettymania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture (Lehigh University Press, 2010).
11 See Judith Plotz, Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), for more on the political power of childhood in the early 1800s.
12 For a study of modern backlashes and the pleasure of hate-watching, see Melissa A. Click (ed.), Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age (New York University Press, 2019).
13 The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America, by John F. Kesson (W.W Norton & Company, 2014)
14 Temple told this story on Terry Wogan’s chat show in the UK.
15 Shirley Temple, ‘My Life and Times: The Autobiography of Shirley Temple, Part 1’, Pictorial Review, August 1935.
16 Geoffrey Bond, ‘Byron Memorabilia’, in Christine Kenyon Jones (ed.), Byron: The Image of the Poet (University of Delaware Press, 2008).
17 Mary O’Connell, Byron and John Murray: A Poet and His Publisher (Oxford University Press, 2015).
18 Thomas Moore, The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, vol II (14 vols., John Murray, 1832).
19 Mary O’Connell, ‘Byron and Albemarle Street’, in Peter Cochran (ed.), Byron in London (Cambridge Scholars, 2008).
20 Mabel Dodge, ‘Speculations, or Post-Impressionism in Prose’, in Arts & Decoration, March 1913
21 Karen Leick, Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity (Routledge, 2009).
22 Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946, (Columbia University Press, 2013)
23 For a good discussion on how highbrow Modernists and lowbrow celebrity mingled in the 1930s, see Timothy W. Galow, Writing Celebrity: Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning (Palgrave, 2011).
24 Loren Glass, Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880–1980 (New York University Press, 2004).
25 Bryce Conrad, ‘Gertrude Stein in the American Marketplace’, Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 19, no. 2 (Autumn 1995), pp. 215–33.
26 ‘The Infant Lyra’, The European Magazine, and London Review, vol. 87, 1825.
27 See this page on the British Library website to read the letter: http://blogs.bl.uk/music/2018/05/mozartinlondon.html.359
28 Ilias Chrissochoidis, ‘London Mozartiana: Wolfgang’s Disputed Age & Early Performances of Allegri’s Miserere’, Musical Times (Summer 2010).
29 For more on Liszt, see Oliver Hilmes, Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar, trans. Stewart Spencer (Yale University Press, 2016); and also Alan Walker, Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811–1847 (Cornell University Press, 1983).
30 Robert Shaughnessy, ‘Siddons [née Kemble], Sarah: (1755–1831)’, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25516.
31 See Jan McDonald, ‘Acting and the Austere Joys of Motherhood: Sarah Siddons Performs Maternity’, in Jane Milling and Martin Banham (eds.), Extraordinary Actors: Essays on Popular Performers, Studies in Honour of Peter Thompson (University of Exeter Press, 2004).
Also look at Robin Asleson, ‘She is Tragedy Personified: Crafting the Siddons Legend in Art and Life’, in Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West, A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists (Getty, 1999).
32 Julie Peakman has several books in this area, see: Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century (Atlantic, 2004); Whore Biographies, 1700–1825 (8 vols., Routledge, 2006–7); Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
33 Lisa O’Connell, ‘Authorship and Libertine Celebrity: Harriette Wilson’s Regency Memoirs’, in Peter Cryle and Lisa O’Connell (eds.), Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

CHAPTER 2: FAME THRUST UPON THEM

1 This quote from Cholly Knickerbocker’s gossip column is taken from Gioia Diliberto’s biography, Debutante: The Story of Brenda Frazier. She says she found it in The New York Journal-American in 1936, but the newspaper only acquired this name in 1937, after a merger, so it was likely published in the New York American in 1936.

EPILOGUE: FAMOUS FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES
1 Mary Harris, ‘A Media Post-Mortem on the 2016 Presidential Election’, Media Quant, 14 November 2016, http://www.mediaquant.net/2016/11/a-media-post-mortem-on-the-2016-presidential-election/.
2 Daniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America ([1962] Atheneum, reissued 1980).
3 This quote can be found in the 1967 book Constructivism: Origins and Evolution by George Rickey
4 The Culture Vultures: or, Whatever Became of the Emperor’s New Clothes? by Alan Levy (1968)
5 Andy Warhol’s Exposures, Photographs by Andy Warhol, Text by Andy Warhol with Bob Colacello, Section: Studio 54, Page 48, Grosset & Dunlap: A Filmways Company, New York. (Verified on paper), 1979
6 Jonathan Swift, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, vol. 5, in Tatler, no. 67 (1709).
7 Robert C. Toll, The Entertainment Machine: American Show Business in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1982).
8 I recommend the 2018 feature length documentary The American Meme as an eye-opening primer on all this.
9 ‘Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content: “It’s Street Cred—The More Sponsors You Have, The More Credibility You Have”.’; by Taylor Lorenz, in The Atlantic, Dec 18th 2018
10 Alice Marwick defines it as ‘a state of being famous to a niche group of people’; see Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, & Branding In The Social Media Age; by AE Marwick, (Yale University Press, 2013)
11 Camgirls: Celebrity & Community in The Age Of Social Networks, by Theresa Senft (2008) New York, NY: Peter Lang

FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY – DEAD FAMOUS (apologies, this is no particular order other than the order in which I read stuff!)

Being a Celebrity: A Phenomenology of Fame, by Donna Rockwell & David C Giles, in Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 2009

See the BBC documentary David Bowie: Five Years, directed by Francis Whately, 2013.

‘Biographies in Popular Magazines’, by Leo Lowenthal, in Radio Research 1942-3, edited by F. Lazarsfeld and F. Stanton, (Duell, 1944)

‘Every Woman Should Glamour for Attention’, in Film Review Annual (MacDonald and Co., 1946).

‘Too Good for the Fan Rags: The Argument for Agency in the Stardom of Katharine Hepburn’, by Sara Bakerman, in Performing Labor in the Media Industries, edited by Kate Fortmueller, Spectator 35:2 (Fall 2015):

Four Fabulous Faces: The Evolution and Metamorphosis of Garbo, Swanson, Crawford and Dietrich, by Larry Carr (Penguin, 1978)

Glamour in a Golden Age: Movie Stars of the 1930s, Edited By Adrienne L. Mclean, Rutgers University Press

‘The Context, Performance and Meaning of Ritual: The British Monarchy and the ‘Invention of Tradition’, c. 1820–1977’, By David Cannadine, in The Invention of Tradition, Edited by Eric Hobsbawm & Terence Ranger (1983)

‘”So Writes the Hand that Swings the Sword”: Autograph Hunting and Royal Charisma in the German Empire, 1861-1888’, by Eva Giloi, in Constructing Charisma: Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe, edited by Edward Berenson, Eva Giloi (Berghahn Books, 2010)

Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture, by P. David Marshall (Minneapolis, 1997)

Celebrity Society, by Robert van Krieken, (Routledge, 2012)

‘All the World Loves a Lover: Monarchy, Mass Media and the 1934 Royal Wedding of Prince George and Princess Marina’, by Edward Owens, The English Historical Review, 133 (562)

Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt, by Robert Gottlieb (Yale University Press, 2010)

The Diva and Doctor God: Letters from Sarah Bernhardt to Doctor Samuel Pozzi, by Caroline De Costa (Xlibris, 2010)

“Private Lives and Public Spaces: Reputation, Celebrity and the Late Victorian Actress” by Sos Eltis in Theatre And Celebrity In Britain, 1660-2000, Edited by Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody, (Palgrave, 2005)

Word of Mouth: Fama and Its Personifications in Art and Literature from Ancient Rome to the Middle Ages, by Gianni Guastella, (Oxford University Press, 2017)

Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature, by Philip Hardie, (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Those Who Write For Immortality: Romanic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame, by H. J. Jackson (Yale, 2015)

Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero, by Lucy Riall (Yale, 2008)

‘Dressing the Part: Mark Twain’s White Suit, Copyright Reform, and the Camera’, by Annelise K. Madsen, in The Journal of American Culture, 32:1, 2009

The Physiognomy of the Lion: Encountering Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century, by Richard Salmon, in Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850, edited by Tom Mole (Cambridge University Press 2009)

‘Signs of Intimacy: The Literary Celebrity in the “Age of Interviewing”‘, by Richard Salmon, in Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 25 Number 1, 1997

‘Introduction: Role Models in the Roman World,’ by Sinclair Bell, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 7, Role Models in the Roman World. Identity and Assimilation (2008), pp. 1-39

Omai: The Prince Who Never Was, by Richard Connaughton (Timewell, 2005)

‘Images of Mai’, by Caroline Turner in Cook & Omai: The Cult of the South Seas, edited by Michelle Hetherington, (National Library of Australia, 2001)

The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs: New and Unpublished Essays and Papers, by Peter Cochran (Cambridge Scholars, 2014)

Byron and John Murray: A Poet and His Publisher, by Mary O’Connell (Oxford UP, 2015)

David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity, by Leslie Ritchie (Cambridge, University Press, 2019)

‘Letter from George Colman to David Garrick dated Paris, July 27th 1766’), in The Private Correspondence of David Garrick with the Most Celebrated Persons of His Time: Volume 1: Now First Published from the Originals, and Illustrated with Notes, and a New Biographical Memoir of Garrick (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

London Newspapers In The Age of Walpole: A Study of the Origins of the Modern English Press, by Michael Harris (London Associated Presses, 1987)

‘The Captive As Celebrity’ by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, in Lives Out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation in Honor of Robert N. Hudspeth – by Robert D. Habich (Editor), Robert N. Hudspeth (Editor), 2004

The Fame Machine: Book Reviewing and Eighteenth-century Literary Careers, by Frank Donoghue, 1996

Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. By Ann R. Hawkins & Maura Ives (Ashgate, 2012)

‘Commodifying The Self: Portraits Of The Artist In The Novels Of Marie Corelli’, by Lizzie White, in Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. By Ann R. Hawkins & Maura Ives (Ashgate, 2012)

Women and Literary Celebrity In The Nineteenth Century: The Transatlantic Production Of Fame And Gender, By Brenda R. Weber, Ashgate, 2012

Fashioning Celebrity: 18th Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making, by Laura Engel (Ohio State Publishing, 2011)

The Author Who Lived: Charles Dickens, J. K. Rowling, Their Fans, And Their Characters, by Tess R. Stockslager, PhD Thesis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2015

‘Creating Character in “Chiaro Oscuro”: Sterne’s Celebrity, Cibber’s Apology, and the Life of “Tristram Shandy”’, by Julia H. Fawcett, in The Eighteenth Century 53, No. 2 (SUMMER 2012)

Laurence Sterne, in Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne to His Most Intimate Friends: With a Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais, to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life and Family, Volume 1 (1776)

Napoleon and the Invasion of Britain, by Alexandra Franklin and Mark Philp, (The Bodleian Library, 2003)

‘Siddons, Celebrity and Regality: Portraiture and the Body of the Ageing Actress’, by Shearer West, in Theatre And Celebrity In Britain, 1660-2000, Edited by Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody, (Palgrave, 2005)

Sex, simians, and spectacle in nineteenth-century France: or, how to tell a “man” from a monkey, by Diana Snigurowicz in Canadian Journal of History. 1999;34(1):51-81.

Spectacle Of Deformity: Freak Shows And Modern British Culture By Nadja Durbach, (University Of California Press, 2010)

Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freaks In Britain, edited by Marlene Tromp (Ohio University Press, 2008)

‘The Dissemination, Fragmentation, And Reinvention Of The Legend Of Daniel Lambert, King Of Fat Men,’ by Joyce L. Huff, in Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freaks In Britain, edited by Marlene Tromp (Ohio University Press, 2008)

‘Acting and the Austere Joys of Motherhood’: Sarah Siddons Performs Maternity, by Jan McDonald in Extraordinary Actors: Essays on Popular Performers, Studies in honour of Peter Thomson; edited by Jane Milling and Martin Banham (University of Exeter Press, 2004)

Gertie Millar and the ‘Rules for Actresses and Vicars’ Wives’, by Viv Gardner, in Extraordinary Actors: Essays on Popular Performers, Studies in honour of Peter Thomson; edited by Jane Milling and Martin Banham (University of Exeter Press, 2004)

“Making It In America: How Charles Dickens And His Cunning Manager George Dolby Made Millions From A Performance Tour Of The United States, 1867-1868”, by Jillian Martin (Thesis, Georgia State University, 2014).

“Sexuality in the Age of Technological Reproducibility: Oscar Wilde, Photography, and Identity”, by Daniel A. Novak, in Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture, edited by Joseph Bristow (Ohio University Press, 2009)

“WILDE: THE REMARKABLE ROCKET”, by Peter Raby, in THEATRE AND CELEBRITY IN BRITAIN, 1660-2000, Edited by Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody, (Palgrave, 2005)

‘Theatrical Riots and Conspiracies in London and Edinburgh: Charles Macklin, James Fennell and the Rights of Actors and Audiences’, by Paul Goring, in The Review of English Studies, Volume 67, Issue 278, 1 February 2016

Celebrity and Rivalry: David (Garrick) and Goliath (Quin), by Peter Thompson, in Theatre and Celebrity In Britain, 1660-2000, Edited by Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody, (Palgrave, 2005)

‘Patron Or Patronised?: “Fans” and the Eighteenth-Century English stage’, by Cheryl Wanko, in Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850, edited by Tom Mole (Cambridge University Press 2009)

‘Scott, Zelda, and the culture of celebrity’, by Ruth Prigozy in The Cambridge companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Ruth Prigozy, Cambridge University Press 2002

‘The Most Envied Couple in America in 1921’: Making The Social Register in the Scrapbooks of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, by Sarah Churchwell, in First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics, ed. Shelly Cobb and Neil Ewen, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)

‘The Most Envied Couple in America in 1921’: Making The Social Register in the Scrapbooks of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, by Sarah Churchwell, in First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics, ed. Shelly Cobb and Neil Ewen, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)

“Where Are The Girls of the Old Brigade?”: Vesta Tilley and Her Female Audience In Correspondence, by Nancy Bruseker; in Musicians and Their Audiences: Performance, Speech and Mediation, edited by Ioannis Tsioulakis and Elina Hytonen-Ng (Routledge 2017)